Raymond Sudre
{{Short description|French sculptor (1870-1962)}}
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Raymond Sudre (1870-1962) was a French sculptor.
Early life
Raymond Sudre was born on October 29, 1870, in Perpignan, France.{{cite web|title=Raymond Sudre (1870-1962)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/14935396/raymond_sudre/|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France|accessdate=April 18, 2016}}{{cite book|last1=Karel|first1=David|title=Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres|date=1992|publisher=Presses de l'Université Laval|location=Quebec City|isbn=9782763772356|page=764|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xojsRTC5ttcC&q=%22Raymond+Sudre%22+sculpteur&pg=PA764|oclc=28178086}} He was tutored by sculptors Antonin Mercié and Alexandre Falguière.
Career
Sudre was a sculptor. He designed a bust of the Count of Blossac in the Blossac Park in Poitiers. He also designed the World War I memorial in Ille-sur-Têt.{{cite web|title=monument aux morts de la guerre de 1914-1918|url=https://culture.cr-languedocroussillon.fr/ark:/46855_PLSS003360?|website=Patrimoine culturel en ligne|accessdate=April 18, 2016}} Additionally, he designed the Fontaine des Amours de Bagatelle on the grounds of the Château de Bagatelle in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.{{cite book|last1=Massounie|first1=Dominique|last2=de Andia|first2=Béatrice|last3=Rabreau|first3=Daniel|title=Paris et ses fontaines: de la Renaissance à nos jours|date=1995|publisher=Délégation à l'action artistique de la ville de Paris|location=Paris|page=309|isbn=9782905118806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQlPAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Raymond+Sudre%22+sculpteur|oclc= 34102370}}
SudreHe won the Prix de Rome in 1900. He visited Quebec in 1929.
Sudre became a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1914, and he was promoted to Officer in 1938.
Death
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